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1901.] Document No. 24. 93
2d. Change all beds in Hospital No. 2, and overseer and guard-rooms
of both camps from wooden bunks and slats to iron frame and spring
mattresses.
3d. Plant a grove—8 to 10 acres—of forest trees at each camp to
modify the intense heat of the summer sun. The trees adapted to that
locality are numerous, and among them are the sugar and Norway
maples, the white, the water and the willow oak, the persimmon and
black walnut, and best and choicest of all, the great Columbian pecan,
whose nuts command the highest price of any nuts known to commerce.
The trees should be set from 30 to 50 feet apart, according to their hab-its,
requiring from 16 to 49 trees to the acre. All except the pecan can
be obtained from the nurseries of the country at twenty-five to fifty cents
each, and the grafted pecan of the specific variety named from the nur-series
of the Gulf States at $1..50 each, in quantity.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
A. W. Shaffer,
Sanitary Engineer State Board of Health.
Wilmington, N. C, December 27, 1900.
BoABD OF Directors State Penitentiary.
Gentlemen:—In accordance with the instructions of the Board of
Health, I visited the State farm near Wadesboro, and beg leave to report
that it had a satisfactory air of cleanliness, and as much comfort as the
buildings could a3"ord.
The barracks were amply sufficient in air space for the number of con-victs,
amounting at my visit to thirty-five, and would provide for the
safe accommodation of double that number. The latrine in the end of
the barracks was carefully cleaned, and had been freshly limed for use
at night. The air in the building was wholesome and the prisoners
were clean. Sewage matter accumulating in the tuba under the corner of
the barracks at night and under the closets in the yard during the day is
carried each day to a ditch an eighth of a mile from the prison yard and
emptied. The ditch carries the matter to a neighboring creek, and is
thoroughly cleansed by rains, the fall of the creek providing for its effi-cient
flushing. The food supplies seemed ample, were clean and of good
quality.
I found three wells on the premises; one behind the laundry—an old-fashioned
one with wooden curbing—from which I was assured that only
water for washing was drawn; another in the yard of the enclosure had
been dug down through a layer of rock to a depth of forty-six feet and
curbed with 24-inch terra cotta-pipe, the .space on the outside of the pipe
being closely packed with sand and loose stone. This well was dug with
the idea of use for the barracks, but the prisoners disliked it, and the

1901.] Document No. 24. 93
2d. Change all beds in Hospital No. 2, and overseer and guard-rooms
of both camps from wooden bunks and slats to iron frame and spring
mattresses.
3d. Plant a grove—8 to 10 acres—of forest trees at each camp to
modify the intense heat of the summer sun. The trees adapted to that
locality are numerous, and among them are the sugar and Norway
maples, the white, the water and the willow oak, the persimmon and
black walnut, and best and choicest of all, the great Columbian pecan,
whose nuts command the highest price of any nuts known to commerce.
The trees should be set from 30 to 50 feet apart, according to their hab-its,
requiring from 16 to 49 trees to the acre. All except the pecan can
be obtained from the nurseries of the country at twenty-five to fifty cents
each, and the grafted pecan of the specific variety named from the nur-series
of the Gulf States at $1..50 each, in quantity.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
A. W. Shaffer,
Sanitary Engineer State Board of Health.
Wilmington, N. C, December 27, 1900.
BoABD OF Directors State Penitentiary.
Gentlemen:—In accordance with the instructions of the Board of
Health, I visited the State farm near Wadesboro, and beg leave to report
that it had a satisfactory air of cleanliness, and as much comfort as the
buildings could a3"ord.
The barracks were amply sufficient in air space for the number of con-victs,
amounting at my visit to thirty-five, and would provide for the
safe accommodation of double that number. The latrine in the end of
the barracks was carefully cleaned, and had been freshly limed for use
at night. The air in the building was wholesome and the prisoners
were clean. Sewage matter accumulating in the tuba under the corner of
the barracks at night and under the closets in the yard during the day is
carried each day to a ditch an eighth of a mile from the prison yard and
emptied. The ditch carries the matter to a neighboring creek, and is
thoroughly cleansed by rains, the fall of the creek providing for its effi-cient
flushing. The food supplies seemed ample, were clean and of good
quality.
I found three wells on the premises; one behind the laundry—an old-fashioned
one with wooden curbing—from which I was assured that only
water for washing was drawn; another in the yard of the enclosure had
been dug down through a layer of rock to a depth of forty-six feet and
curbed with 24-inch terra cotta-pipe, the .space on the outside of the pipe
being closely packed with sand and loose stone. This well was dug with
the idea of use for the barracks, but the prisoners disliked it, and the